Landmark Hotel to Be Sold and Renovated
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The landmark Casa del Mar Hotel in Santa Monica, which has housed the Pritikin Longevity Center for 18 years, will be sold and converted into a luxury beachfront hotel, the buyers and seller have announced.
Rather than pay about $2 million for seismic retrofitting, Pritikin center owners decided to sell the brick building to The Edward Thomas Cos., a hotel real estate firm.
Santa Monica city officials said they are pleased with plans to preserve the historic building, which was designed by architect Charles F. Plummer in the 1920s.
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